The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-24

EFFECT OF BATHING ON BEAUTY.
The Art of Dancing AL Night and
Going Home Fresh in the Morning.
Ffonl The Cincinnati Enquirer.


The Art of Dancing All Night and
Going Home Fresh in the Morning.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ladies III New York are getting more and
more into the way of resorting to the Turk
ish bath as a means of restoring color to the
cheeks and brightness to the eyes after
night of dissipation. | know a girl whose
complexion is of the clearest but who has
left the ballroom many a time as early as
o'clock, so fearful is she Of injuring her
greatest charm. She heard of the Turkish
bath, and, therefore, rislled dancing
ing. From the ballroom she
went directly to the bathing estab
| lishment, feeling as if the entire
| world saw her infamed eyes and sunken
| cheeks From the Office she was conducted
to a box of a room about as large as a sec
| ton in sleeping car. And when my
! friend had removed her garments, which
she accomplished with some hesitation at
| the last ut did seem so unnatural to have no
| long inclusive gown to throw over the
rapidly appearing body, she decided that,
| as she was i'll for it any way, she would not
| bother with the poor protection of a towel,
but would face the bath with bold sim
| plicity. The attendant returned shortly
and seemed so utterly devoid of conscious
that the new customer regained
| somewhat her composure. She was
led into an iron-walled room, where the
air was so hot that the perspiration started
| at once from every pore. She was told to
| sit down-there were several chairs for the
| purpose-and to wait until called for The
heat was surprisingly great, but after mo-
ment it produced the languid feeling that is
| perfectly delicious to a tired body. The at
| tendant reentered shortly, and bound a wet
| towel about the new customers head. 1t
began to steam almost Immediately Five
| minutes of this and it became uncomforta-
| BILE, ten q torture fifteen frightful, and the
last five of the twenty minutes were
simply immeasurable suffering. Then
strong, motherly-looking woman came in.
| She had on loose gown that had no sleeves
and fell only to the knees
"How long must stay here?' exclaimed
| the suffering customer.
| The attendant ran her hand along the
dear girls back and limbs, and said:
You seem to have sweated pretty well;
guess you can come along now.n
They went into room adjoining. 1t was
| nearly as hot as the first. There was a table
in it on which the parboiled girl was re-
| quested to lie down. Then the stalwart at
| tendant rubbed and scrubbed and lathered
| her for several minutes, and scraped her
| with brush, and kneaded her flesh until it
seemed as if her very bones must have felt
the cleansing effect of the operation. The
attendant was putting and blowing from the
| exertion when she told the customer to sit
| up, and went to a hose that lay in
nocently coiled up at one end of the
room. Without more than ''sit still now,
| please" she began to play cooling stream
of water on the lathered and glowing girl.
The word cooling is used advisedly, for as it
played it rapidly grew chilly and presently
the dear girl was spluttering helpless plea
for q change The contrast with the intense
heat she had endured was tremendous. The
acknowledgement the hose when she thought
best, but before the poor, innocent customer
could rejoice at the relief, she was being
pounded with the icy cold blows of shower
bath. 1t was agony itself and it seemed
| as if every inch of her glistening cuticle
were being overlaid with pricking icicles
But this, too, had it's end, and the novice
was all but crying with WEAKNESS and tor
ture when the attendant led her into an
other room and began to dry her. When
the water had been fairly removed from her
body she was wrapped in a blanket and
taken to her room.
''How long will you sleep?" asked the at
tendant.
"Why, l don't want to sleep at all ~ re-
piled the customer. II want to go home -
But she was told she would have to lie
there awhile anyway, and that she would
surely fall asleep, so she would better say
when she wanted to get up She named the
hour, and was tucked up in her bunk. She
was still perspiring, and in two minutes was
sound asleep. She was awakened promptly,
and her eyes feeling heavy and her BODY
weary, was told to get into a tank of water
sunk in the floor of still another room, into
which she had been led. The
water was chilly and she was glad to get
out of it hastily. 1t was the last torture.
She was rubbed with alcohol to prevent her
from taking cold and then permitted to
dress. When the dear girl got home it was
just her time for breakfast. She slipped
into the house unobserved AID promptly ap-
peared in the dining-room, feeling as bright
and vigorous as if she had had full nights
sleep, and betraying not the slightest sign of
her dissipation.